{"product_id":"figeater-9781957062259","title":"Figeater","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Andrea Carter's powerful \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, \"we follow the\/road, the terrible invention\/\/ of hope\" until we reach the place where desire stretches the limits of what a heart can endure. Like Jupiter's great storm, this collection is \"a constant\/ hurricane, grasping, expanding, \/ feeling for a purchase, stability, \/ a place to collapse, fall apart, re-\/accumulate.\" What abundant, soulful, heartwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tomás Q. Morín\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrea Carter shows herself to be a master of extended metaphor and the lyric. The book chronicles abuse, abandonment, betrayal-the men often seeing someone else, the mother as wicked queen-\"I am a moving violation\" says the speaker-trapped with \"no one to release me from my glass coffin.\" There is emptiness and hunger here-\"No one will know\/\/the hunger of us.\" The central reveal is scattered like breadcrumbs throughout the book: \"I looked more like\/an adult even at ten, and my body\/\/belonged to my stepfather.\" In a key poem, \"The Welder,\" the speaker is likened to Hephaestus, metal worker to the gods-\"the daughter is [...]\/the conjoining joint, testament\/\/between her mother\/and the man her mother sends\/her daughter to\/\/in order to make him happy.\" \u003cem\u003eFigeater\u003c\/em\u003e is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter's ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Donna Spruijt-Metz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gunpowder Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957062259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Andrea Carter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085806465205,"sku":"9781957062259","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eef38b29-f595-441a-a65f-2e0cac64cd58.jpg?v=1765295269","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/figeater-9781957062259","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}